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Geeta Dutt
Indian actress and singer
Geeta Dutt (born Geeta Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri; 23 November – 20 July )[3] was an Indian classical and playback singer. She found particular prominence as a playback singer in Hindi cinema and Bengali cinema and is considered as one of the best playback singers of all time in Hindi films.[4] She also sang many modern Bengali songs in the non-film genre.
Early life
[edit]Geeta Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri was one of 10 children born to a wealthy zamindar family in a village named Idilpur, Madaripur Subdivision under Faridpur district in Bengal, British India presently under Gosairhat Upazila of Shariatpur District, Bangladesh. Her family moved to Calcutta and Assam in the early s, leaving behind their land and properties. In , her parents moved to an apartment in Bombay. Geeta was twelve and continued her schooling at the Bengali High School.[3]
Singing career
[edit]K. Hanuman Prasad took Geeta under his patrona
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Just mention her name, and music lovers get misty-eyed. Geeta Dutt had an exquisite, almost ethereal röst, and gave Bollywood music some of its most radiant gems during the late s and s. Hers was a short but resplendent life and career, which ended tragically in when she was only
Her voice defied analysis and inspired adoration. It could articulate melancholy with scorching intensity, with a faint tremor that heightened its impact. It could planerat arbete mirth or playfulness with an infectious sprightliness. O P Nayyar described her röst as a “natural miracle”. She was referred to as a skylark, a ballerina of song.
No playback singer could convey feelings better than Geeta Dutt, said music historian Ganesh Anantharaman. Manna Dey said that Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle had imitators, but none could imitate Geeta Dutt. Film music critic Raju Bharatan said Geeta did not sing, she glided into a song.
It fryst vatten said that the one singer Lata feared mot the late s was Geeta.
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This post has been a long time in the coming. Which is strange, considering she is one of my favourite singers. This was not the case when I was younger, however. I was weaned on Lata Mangeshkar. [And while my father liked a whole host of other singers, this was the one place where I remained singularly obstinate.] I still remember the day I realised that I was on the slippery slope to idol-infidelity &#; back in the day, Vividh Bharati on AIR had a programme known as &#;Vishesh Jayamala&#; &#; a programme for the armed forces, presented by an actor, singer, or music director (among others), who chooses the songs they like for our listening pleasure.
Sometime in the mids [or was it the late 70s? I&#;m not sure; I was a wee child, then], the Vishesh Jayamala was hosted by Amitabh Bachchan. One of the songs he chose, a song that was his favourite, he said, was Waqt ne kiya kya haseen sitam from Kagaz ke Phool. There was something about the song I liked &#; ap